Chapter 63: Ahjussi is a little kid (1) (2/2)
That symbol…
“Ah…!”
The detectives saluted in fright.
Among them, the woman that appeared to be the one in charge, ignored them while looking at the site.
‘Jack had fainted inside his car.’
‘Jack’ was an agent of a special task force that she had secretly deployed, in order to find Hasegawa’s secrets.
‘There was a ‘Konnosuke’, from the members that had entered this place. In other words, someone made Jack unconscious before snatching the invitation card.’
It was a top grade secret among the special forces, but Hasegawa was almost certainly a high-ranked demon. Therefore, the signs of battle in this place could be seen as the aftermath of the battle between Hasegawa and the ‘one that replaced Jack’.
‘I must find traces. If Hasegawa is dead, there needs to be proof that he is actually dead.’
But unfortunately, she couldn’t find anything.
That night after work, she headed to the ‘hideout’. It was a social club of world rankers that had the combined goal of exterminating demons.
[Grand Natural Society]
During this time period, there would be two to three people coming here and slacking off in search for leisure from their busy lives. She wanted to ask them about the strange happenings that had occurred today.
She opened the door of the hideout. The ones that were always there were nowhere to be seen, and she could only see Myung Yongha and BM.
“…”
Myung Yongha was staring at a leaf placed on top of the table with a serious look;
“…”
Gulp.
And BM was drinking alcohol like usual, but was lying down on the sofa, while holding a small glass bottle up in front of the light.
“Yo, guys, what are you doing? You look out of it.”
No-one replied.
“Huh? Oi yous. You little grass, what are you doing here right now? Isn’t it time for you to go hospital?”
“…”
“Huhh? What’s wrong? Did some plants lay their roots down in your ears?”
“…”
“…oi.”
“…”
“…You, you. Don’t tell me, Myung Yongha–!”
Thinking of the worst possible case scenario, she unconsciously screamed out.
“Minamoto… the doctor today, said this for the first time.”
“…Uh? Hnn?”
Myung Yongha murmured with a blank, and quiet voice.
“…there has been an improvement.”
***
That day, they were all slightly weird.
“Bye bye…”
Kaeul on her way to her lesson wasn’t jumping around like usual.
“…”
And Yeorum on her way to the physical training rooms with a sword, didn’t even spare a glance at him.
“…”
Bom was the same as usual, so he didn’t really talk to her.
“…”
And finally, Gyeoul threw glances at him.
“Why.”
“…?”
She turned her head around.
With no-one talking to him, Yu Jitae searched up news reports and read them. During that, he could sense a gaze, and it was most definitely Gyeoul.
When he glanced back at Gyeoul, she pretended to be doing something else, and grabbed the teddy bear’s hand before shaking it up and down. However, it somehow felt different from how she usually threw glances at him.
What exactly was happening.
*
Their strange actions continued even during the evening. When it was mealtime for dinner, Bom asked them naturally.
“What do you want for dinner?”
Yeorum, who was drenched in sweat after just coming back from training, shook her head.
“I’m good.”
“Nnng, unni. I’m not really hungry either…”
While saying that, Kaeul threw a few glances at Yu Jitae. Yeorum poked her with her elbow, and them saying “What now!” and “You yellow monkey” could be heard.
Meanwhile, Gyeoul walked up to the two of them and sent them a gaze as if she was asking something. When Yeorum frowned, Gyeoul met her gaze with a glaring look.
“Guys, what’s going on?”
“What’s what?”
“Hmm. Then no dinner for today?”
“Nn. Unni.”
That was when Yu Jitae thought that something was weird.
They had almost never skipped a meal. Kaeul, the baby chicken, who especially loved eating, had lamented the fact that humans only ate three meals a day.
– How good would it be if we could eat five times a day?!
That was how she normally was, so thinking that it was weird, Yu Jitae called her.
“Yu Kaeul.”
“Y, yes?”
“Are you sick?”
“N, n, n, no no no no?”
The baby chicken had a hard time meeting his gaze. Therefore, Yu Jitae walked up and held her by her arms and looked into her eyes.
“Let’s see.”
“Ah, u, uah… I, I’m fine!”
[Eyes of Equilibrium (SS)]
Hanging on the authenticity scale was ‘truth’.
She wasn’t sick.
The baby chicken fluttered her arms like wings and escaped from his grasp. Then, she dashed into her room as if running away.
He had no idea what was happening, and it felt like there were four Yu Gyeouls today.
However, his doubt was cleared when it passed midnight.
Suddenly, the living room’s lights were turned off.
It wasn’t a big deal to the Regressor, who could see through the darkness. He fidgeted with the switch, before heading to the front entrance in order to check the circuit breaker.
Behind him, a different dimension was divided into two. From Bom’s alternate dimension walked out Kaeul, who had balloons hanging on her head.
Buzz-
Mana containing lightning, the attribute of a gold dragon, flowed and it was unclear when she had prepared them, but the small lights hanging on her body started flickering.
“Ahjussi.”
“…What are you doing?”
“Happy birthdayyy–!!”
Bang! Bang!
The firecrackers bursted out after that, but the baby chicken was suddenly startled and started making a fuss.
“Noo…! It was meant to be after blowing out the lights of the cake!”
It seemed that she had messed up the order.
Meanwhile, Bom and Gyeoul who had been on the sofa, also stood up and clapped.
“Happy birthday, ahjussi.”
Birthday…?
Now that they said it, it was true.
It was past midnight, and today was the 12th of December. It was indeed his birthday, which he had never thought about over several regressions. He had completely forgotten about it because it wasn’t even on his mind.
“…How did you find out.”
“I looked at ahjussi’s ID card last time.”
Before he could even ask anything else, Gyeoul toddled up with quick steps and extended her arms forward, and Yu Jitae hugged her. Although he had no idea, Gyeoul had been wanting to do this since the morning, so she repeatedly bumped her forehead on his chest with a wide smile.
That was when the door of the terrace was slid open, as a pair of red eyes walked in through the darkness.
Yeorum was carrying a cake on her hand, and started slowly walking forward after seeing Yu Jitae. However, there was a dark smile hanging on her face for some reason.
The room had a strangely tense atmosphere.
“Yeorum.”
When Bom called her name with a voice that seemed to be trying to stop her, Yeorum suddenly started running forward.
“Yu Yeorum!”
“Aht, unni! That’s different from what you said…!”
Before they could even try to stop her, Yeorum threw the cake at Yu Jitae’s face with an expression filled with mischief.